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Artist | Laura Marling
Title | Semper Femina
Genre | Folk/Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 42:15
Label | More Alarming Store | 2017
Catalog | MORAMR001CD Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 219 kbps Size | 69.71 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Soothing 4:16
02. The Valley 5:40
03. Wild Fire 4:50
04. Dont Pass Me By 5:09
05. Always This Way 4:33
06. Wild Once 4:22
07. Next Time 4:01
08. Nouel 4:53
09. Nothing, Not Nearly 4:31
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Singer/songwriter Laura Marling was only 16 years old when she emerged on
the British indie scene in 2007 thanks to a handful of infectious singles
made available on her MySpace profile. Endowed with a husky voice, an
acoustic guitar, and a gift for building quirky, hooky folk songs
(characteristics that find her compared favorably to artists like Lily
Allen, Regina Spektor, and Martha Wainwright), Marling quickly made a name
for herself throughout England thanks to a heavy touring schedule and a few
high-profile gigs, not the least of which included an appearance at the
2006 City Showcase: Spotlight London and as the opening act for Jamie T.
"Semper Femina", a Latin phrase borrowed from Virgil translating roughly to
'always a woman', was tattooed on Laura Marling's body long before it
became the title of her sixth album. Like her adopted motto, this striking
set gives the impression of a concept that was left to simmer a while
before revealing itself in song. Initially intended as an exercise in
writing about women from a male's perspective, Marling soon found that the
feelings she was expressing were, in reality, her own, and Semper Femina
became the work of a woman writing intimately about women. Crafted in her
adopted home of Los Angeles and produced by Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes,
Jim James), it's a wonder of musical subtlety, backing off from the
cinematic electric desert-scapes of 2015's "Short Movie" and approaching
the acoustic delicacy of earlier albums from a newfound perspective.
A classic confessional songwriter, the British expat has found here the
perfect balance of wounded introspection and confident observation, getting
to the core of the matter with poetic candor on standouts like "The Valley"
and the masterful "Next Time", the latter of which is easily one of the
strongest cuts of her career. As with much of Marling's work, especially
during her California period, the ghost of Joni Mitchell - another
transplanted flower who bloomed in Laurel Canyon - can be heard on the
richly melodic yet beautifully sparse fingerpicked ballad "Noell".
Elsewhere, Marling's bluesy half-spoken incantations propel smart
slow-burners like "Wild Fire" and album-closer "Nothing Not Nearly". whose
unique coda quotes Bach's iconic "Cello Suite No. 1" before literally
closing the studio door and fading out to birdsong. Having entered the
limelight early, the 27-year-old singer/songwriter has now settled into a
comfortable groove to on this finely honed career highlight.
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